@osu68/dodger68: FYI
MJ is safer than alcohol - link 1. Direct section headings from the article:
"A large new study suggested that for people between the ages of 15 and 49 years old worldwide, alcohol was the leading risk factor for death in 2016."
"More than 30,700 Americans died from alcohol-induced causes in 2014. There have been zero documented deaths from marijuana use alone."
"Marijuana appears to be significantly less addictive than alcohol."
"Marijuana may be harder on your heart, while moderate drinking could be beneficial."
"Alcohol is strongly linked with several types of cancer; marijuana is not."
"Both drugs may be linked with risks while driving, but alcohol is worse."
"Several studies link alcohol with violence, particularly at home. That has not been found for cannabis."
"Both drugs negatively affect your memory, but in different ways. These effects are the most common in heavy, frequent, or binge users."
"Both drugs are linked with an increased risk of psychiatric disease. For weed users, psychosis and schizophrenia are the main concern; with booze, it's depression and anxiety."
"Alcohol appears to be linked more closely with weight gain, despite weed's tendency to trigger the munchies."
"All things considered, alcohol's effects seem markedly more extreme — and riskier — than marijuana's."
Another study shows that states with legal medical marijuana programs showed a 15% drop in alcohol sales - link 2.
If alcohol is so much more dangerous than MJ, and alcohol use is down 15% in MJ states (along with opiate overdose mortality being down 25% in MJ states - link 3); why do we continue to criminalize MJ? Cannabis prohibition is an abject failure, and society would be much better and much safer with cannabis legal and regulated.
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MJ is safer than alcohol - link 1. Direct section headings from the article:
"A large new study suggested that for people between the ages of 15 and 49 years old worldwide, alcohol was the leading risk factor for death in 2016."
"More than 30,700 Americans died from alcohol-induced causes in 2014. There have been zero documented deaths from marijuana use alone."
"Marijuana appears to be significantly less addictive than alcohol."
"Marijuana may be harder on your heart, while moderate drinking could be beneficial."
"Alcohol is strongly linked with several types of cancer; marijuana is not."
"Both drugs may be linked with risks while driving, but alcohol is worse."
"Several studies link alcohol with violence, particularly at home. That has not been found for cannabis."
"Both drugs negatively affect your memory, but in different ways. These effects are the most common in heavy, frequent, or binge users."
"Both drugs are linked with an increased risk of psychiatric disease. For weed users, psychosis and schizophrenia are the main concern; with booze, it's depression and anxiety."
"Alcohol appears to be linked more closely with weight gain, despite weed's tendency to trigger the munchies."
"All things considered, alcohol's effects seem markedly more extreme — and riskier — than marijuana's."
Another study shows that states with legal medical marijuana programs showed a 15% drop in alcohol sales - link 2.
If alcohol is so much more dangerous than MJ, and alcohol use is down 15% in MJ states (along with opiate overdose mortality being down 25% in MJ states - link 3); why do we continue to criminalize MJ? Cannabis prohibition is an abject failure, and society would be much better and much safer with cannabis legal and regulated.
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